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Name: SLADEN, Gerald Carew CB, CMG, DSO & Bar, MC (Brig.-General)
Nee: son of Col. Sir Edward Bosc Sladen
Birth Date: 11.6.1881 Sittwe, Burma
Death Date: 30.4.1930 Nakuru
First Date: 1906
Profession: Military, farmer
Area: 1922 Turi, 1925 Rongai, 1930 Fintry Farm, Rongai, 1920 Njoro, Nakuru
Married: In Brompton, London 24 July 1913 Mabel Ursula Orr Ewing b. 19 Apr 1887 Port of Menteith, Perthshire, d. 6 Feb 1963 St Helier (married 2ndly 1933 Fernand Sladen formerly Hirschfeldt)
Children: Edward Carew (26 Sep 1914 London-20 Feb 1944 on active service at Rangoon, Burma) ; Geraldine Mabel (1916 Stratford on Avon-2018) (Macoun); Ruth Violet (13 July 1919 Stratford-1978) (Wallop, son of 9th Earl of Portsmouth)
Book Reference: Cuckoo, KAD, Brewery, Red 25, Red 31, Hut, Drumkey, Red 22, DSO, Burke, Eton, EAHB 1907, Childhood, Barnes
War Service: 2nd Lieut. 4th Bedfordshire Militia in S. Africa
School: Eton
General Information:
Debrett - entered Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 1901, became Capt. 1911, Major 1916, and Brevet Lieut.-Col. 1917; retired as Hon. Brig.-Gen. 1919; S. African War 1899-1902 (despatches, Queen's medal with 3 clasps, King's medal with 2 clasps), Somaliland 1908-10 (medal with clasp), European War 1914-19 Comdg. a Batn. Roy. Warwickshire Regt., and as Brig.-Gen. (despatches 8 times, DSO with Bar, MC, Brevet Lieut.-Col., Order of St. Stanislaus with Swords, Italian Croix de Guerre, CMG, CB, Italian Order of S.S. Maurice and Lazarus)
DSO - Bar to DSO - London Gazette 20 Oct 1916 - For the excellent handling of his battalion notably when he placed it at such a position as to cause the surrender of many of the enemy in a village. On another occasion he captured a whole system of enemy trenches and many prisoners.
Gazette 21/4/1920 - Registration of Brands - PO Njoro - V5M
Barnes - Nakuru North Cemetery - Gerald Carew Sladen, born 11/6/1881, died 30/4/1930
Cuckoo - 1908 - Kisii Expedition.
Brewery - One of the first regular customers of the Kenya Brewery in 1924.
Pamela Scott, A Nice Place to Live, 1991: Brigadier-General Sladen CB, CMG, DSO, MC. He had been in the Rifle Brigade and had had a brilliant career during the war. He had served before that in 1906 in the King's African Rifles in East Africa and in the Somali Camel Corps from 1908 to 1910. He, like my father, had been allotted a soldier-settler farm in North Kenya but had not taken it up. His wife was a beautiful Scottish girl, Mabel Orr-Ewing, from Cardross near Stirling. They had just bought some land on the Molo River and my parents decided to go and see it with the idea that they might buy some land nearby. The price being asked was £3. 7s. 6d per acre in sterling with thirty years to pay and 8 per cent interest on the unpaid amount. They planned to grow flax, which at that time was supposed to have a wonderful future. They had some difficulty getting to the Sladens' camp on the farm, as there were no roads and two rivers to cross with no bridges and my mother expected the little car to be smashed to atoms. But they got there in the end, found the Sladens having an excellent lunch from a Fortnum and Mason chop box and were able to pitch their camp not far off.
Tom Lawrence: G.C. Sladen (b. 1881) was appointed as a Lieut. in 1st KAR on 26th June 1906, and arrived in Mombasa from England on 16th July 1906, and appears to have headed for Nairobi. He went to Zanzibar with a detachment of from 1 Bn. 1st KAR on 23rd April 1907. He was back in Nairobi in 1908, and dispatched to British Central Africa on 11th June 1908 with one Company of the Zanzibar Detachment. Farmed in th Turi/Rongai part of the world. Died 21st April 1930 and is buried in Nakuru West Cemetery.
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